AP Psych Important People

(Developmental Psychology) - placed human infants into a "strange situation" in order to examine attachment to parents

Ainsworth

(Social Psychology) - conformity experiment, people incorrectly reported the lengths of lines

Asch

(Learning and Personality) - social learning theory, modeling, reciprocal determinism, and self-efficacy

Bandura

(Developmental Psychology, Testing and Individual Differences) - French creator of the first intelligence test

Binet

(Cognition) - theorized the critical period for language development

Chomsky

(Developmental Psychology) - psychosocial stages theory of development (8 stages)

Erickson

(Personality and Consciousness) - psychosexual stages (oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital), theory of personality (id,ego, superego), dream analysis, unconscious, defense mechanisms, psychoanalytic/psychodynamic theory

Freud

(Developmental Psychology) - challenged Kohlberg's moral development

Giligan

(Developmental Psychology) - experimented with infant monkey's and contact comfort

Harlow

(Sensation and Perception) - discovered feature detectors, aka

neurons in the visual cortex that respond to different types of visual images

Hubel and Wiesel

(Methods, History, Approaches) - published the Principles of Psychology, psychology's first textbook, theory of functionalism

James

(Developmental Psychology) - stage theory of moral development

Kohlberg

(Cognition) - demonstrated the problems of eyewitness testimony

and constructive memory

Loftus

(Motivation and Emotion) - humanistic psychologist, hierarchy of needs

Maslow

(Social Psychology) - obedience studies, participants think they are

shocking someone to improve their memory

Milgram

(Learning) - classical conditioning studies with dogs and salivation

Pavlov

(Developmental Psychology) - stage theory of cognitive development (sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operations, formal operations), assimilation, accomodation, object permanence, conservation

Piaget

(Personality) - humanistic psychologist, unconditional positive

regard, self theory of personality

Rogers

(Motivation and Emotion) - two factor theory for emotion

Schacter

(Learning) - operant conditioning, schedules of reinforcement, behaviorist perspective, Skinner box

Skinner

(Learning) - experimented with latent learning; sometimes learning

occurred, but is not immediately evident

Tolman

(Learning) - father of behaviorism, "Baby Albert" experiment, fear

conditioning

Watson

(Cognition) - linguistic relativity hypothesis

Whorf

(History) - first psychology laboratory in Leipzig, Germany in 1879,

theory of structuralism

Wundt

(Positive Psychology and Personality) - studied learned helplessness, studied pessimistic vs optimistic explanatory styles

Seligman

(Neurobiological Perspective and Biological Psychology) - famous research on a patient nicknamed TA who had brain damage in his left hemisphere, the region of the temporal lobe that produces spoken language, thus that region was named after him

Broca